The World Health Organisation is expected to rename monkeypox to reduce stigmatisation and racism surrounding the virus, as outbreaks are no longer endemic to Central and West Africa.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on Tuesday the agency was working on renaming the virus as cases continue to surge around the world.
“The use of geographical labels for strains of [monkeypox virus], specifically, references to the 2022 outbreak as belonging to the ‘West African’ or ‘Western African’ clade, strain, or genotype.”WHO lists the two strains of the virus as: the West African clade and the Congo Basin clade. It also proposed media outlets stop using pictures of African people with pox lesions to report on outbreaks in Western countries like Europe.
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